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"Joy works the graveyard shift at a grocery store outside Boston and nurses an addiction to cough syrup. Then a sickness that begins with memory loss and ends with death sweeps the country, and for the first time in her life, Joy has an advantage: she is immune. This gains her admittance to a hospital in rural Kansas and a chance to escape her bleak existence. As winter descends, the hospital's fragile order breaks down and Joy breaks free, embarking on a journey to Florida to find her birth mother, the woman who abandoned her as a child."--Back cover.

The Courtlands are having a last summer vacation before their daughter begins college. For Caitlin, the Rocky Mountains will be the ultimate test of her rural heart. For her parents, they hope the beauty and grandeur will somehow repair a damaged marriage. But when Caitlin and her younger brother go out for an early morning run, and only Sean returns, the mountains become terrifying.

After she moves near the lawless frontier town of Century, Oregon, to become a homesteader, eighteen-year-old Esther Chambers finds herself in a full-out range war that tests her loyalty to her cousin, rancher Ferris Pickett.